Contextual art. Practices and Experiments Across Europe in the 1970s
Juliane Debeusscher
10. 10. 2024
18:00
Hans Belting Library
We cordially invite you to the first lecture of the SMArt Talks cycle of the autumn semester 2024! Our first speaker is Juliane Debeusscher, a researcher at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a current visiting fellow at the Centre for Modern Art & Theory. You can find the abstract of the lecture below.
Abstract
What is contextual art? Who is behind it? And can it be exhibited? Between the late 1960s and 1970s, a number of artists and cultural operators active in Europe stressed the need to produce a contextual art, anchored in concrete social, cultural or environmental sites. These targeted interventions were often put into practice through fieldwork conducted with local communities and local authorities. At the same time, they were part of the framework of transnational collaborations or meetings that repositioned these investigations and concerns on a wider stage.